Sometimes the best actions photos are taken under terrible conditions. In this case, an eastbound empty unit coal train is rolling through a heavy rain storm en route to Williamson, WV, along the NS main line. This was once the Scioto Division of the Norfolk & Western, where Class A 2-6-6-4s like the 1218 routinely handled 190-car coal trains westward along this same route. Today, modern GE and EMD six-axle motor power like these handle even heavier trains.
For the train and storm chaser. Trains with thunderstorms, dark clouds, rain, lightning, hurricanes - tropical storms, funnel clouds, storm light, rainbows, and snow storms.
Pace and pan shots of trains from on the ground or in the air. If you're not in the locomotive cab or on-board the train, it's the next best thing to being there.
